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A documentary about the great poet and author Carl Sandburg by Asheville filmmaker Paul Bonesteel gets a national TV audience Monday night, and a local historical site gets a resulting windfall of digital video.

"American Masters: The Day Carl Sandburg Died" plays at 10 p.m. Monday on PBS and locally on UNC-TV and Asheville's WUNF/Channel 33.

At the same time, the complete, unedited interviews Bonesteel recorded for the documentary are now housed in the Museum Preservation Center at the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, where Bonesteel did considerable filming. ...